Loss leader strategy is a game for the big companies that have deep pockets to finance it. And it doesn’t work through free versions with pro upgrades. VectorStyler is Pro by nature, so that suggestion makes no sense anyway. Affinity didn’t become free because Canva are great humanitarians whose hearts bleed for the small creators.

@EricP thank you for all your time and help. I’ll try to use the methods in the file shared. @Subpath that little tool might have been helpful, but it’s not opening on my Mac. I keep getting a message that it’s either damaged or can’t be opened. I tried the fix suggested on the website, but no luck. There are some scripts available for Illustrator that can be used for circle packing. I’ll experiment with them and hope it works. Thanks again for the help.

@fde101 The point was simply to demonstrate the principle of paragraphic scaling, and in my example, I only mentioned how paragraphic scaling works, not that it was randomly scaled. You can, of course, also generate copies randomly by using the "Randomize 2D" input node. Here too, the size of the original object will not be exceeded as long as you keep the Value Range below or at a maximum of 1. If you want to like to have random values ​​within a larger range, then you can also enter values ​​greater than 1.

@EricP Thanks, that was helpful. I'm so used to using the repeater the way I do that I completely forgot about the other options. By the way, I'd never tried the Selection option you showed in your post above before. Very interesting. Thanks for that as well.

@FastVector Thank you I've already switched to version 1.2.088. I didn't notice the fix because my beloved dark theme was still there as usual. But I'm sure I would have noticed it if it had been the light theme.

@Daniel said in New "Quick pen tool" in Illustrator beta form seems to have features that tie in with potential arc tool in VS: Edit: I see it has become a subscription-based project now. $7 per year is still not much. Maybe I remembered wrong that it was free. Looks like the Mac and PC and Linux are still one purchase and web version is a subscription.

@MrDixioner I will try fix the previewing issue. But the Transparency panel should also work with the layer selected.

@Boldline , @syllie and anyone who is interested The Tutorial is finish you found it here. https://www.vectorstyler.com/forum/topic/5406/kind-of-guilloche-pattern

@VectorStyler I will gather some examples for you when I have the chance and then post them in this thread.

@Raaskot I also have everything working fine by default, meaning I didn't configure anything when I first launched the program. In such cases, deleting the program's settings files is usually recommended, but you could lose all your settings, so the choice is yours.

@VectorStyler I've sent you a file but I didn't test all issues.

@VectorStyler Confirmed

@MrDixioner always gladly, nice that it was helpful Btw, double left click on a tool icon brings up a little panel where you could change the settings of a tool. Try also different Tools this way.

@EricP The shape can still be selected: in the Layers panel, open the repeater, and select the object inside. But it will show it at the center of the repeater.

@Subpath said in Stroke width will be scaled on every imported File: Does that mean there is no way to turn this effect off? There is, individually for each stroke

@jpsimmons This only happens here when the duplication mode is set to "Reference", or the Edit -> Reference command is used to duplicate. If that was the case, this is a normal behavior as a symbol is created from the text frame and scaling the "duplicate" scales the symbol.

@VectorStyler I deleted my previous post because I made a mistake. I forgot to assign the "Object Role," in this try which is why nothing was displayed in the Style Panel. In my reply to your email, I promised to inform you about my tests with the latest version 1.2.088 regarding this bug. In the meantime i did a few tries with the latest release 1.2.088 and everything looking pretty good so far ungrouping is working now.